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Within Vinony's link graph, (10756) 1990 SJ2 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 10001–11000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1990, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Henry E. Holt.

Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.

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Pathfinder on Mars

Pathfinder on Mars

2026-07-04

On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before it came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. After its then novel airbag-assisted landing sequence was completed, Pathfinder transmitted this color mosaic to mission operators on Earth. In the scene from another world, the Mars Sojourner robot rover is visible in the foreground, crouched on top of the unfolded Pathfinder. About the size of a large house cat, the six-wheeled, solar-powered Sojourner became the first successful Martian rover. Surrounding Pathfinder are deflated airbags and the rock-strewn terrain of the Ares Vallis floodplain. In the distance Martian hills appear against a dusty brownish sky. The Pathfinder lander was subsequently renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
(10757) 1990 SF3
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
3.851
Orbital period
1205.154280093193
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provisional designation
1997 WZ56
discoverer or inventor
Henry E. Holt
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
albedo
0.360
orbital eccentricity
0.1638442715875907
orbital inclination
4.74936867243937
periapsis
1.85317592617199
apoapsis
2.579433606242683
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.216304766207336
mean anomaly
215.598934522074
longitude of ascending node
79.89784550367779
argument of periapsis
319.0024759004842
absolute magnitude
14.1
time of discovery or invention
1990-09-17
time of periapsis
2461483.9043391966
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